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Program Results Reports describe RWJF’s interest in the area and strategy for addressing the problem for those working in the field or interested in undertaking similar efforts. They explain the problem addressed; the activities undertaken; the results or findings from the work; lessons for the field; any post-grant activities—by the grantee or RWJF—and they include a bibliography of material produced during the project or program.

The Texas Muslim Women's Foundation, in Plano, which provides culturally specific services, focusing on the needs of the Muslim community, expanded its emphasis on domestic violence to support abused women and children and promote healthy families.

From 2012 to 2013, Grameen Research led an effort to launch an affordable health care program for low-income Hispanic women entrepreneurs, members of microfinance lender Grameen America in New York City.

Researchers and residents in New Britain, Conn., collaborated to identify and address barriers to physical activity among Latina teens. They used Photovoice to give girls and parents a voice and help develop them as community leaders.

Planned Parenthood of Columbia/Willamette developed a business plan for expanding its Online Health Center to other states. It allows women in Oregon and Washington to access contraceptive services via the Internet.

Through its MOMobile at Riverside program, the Maternity Care Coalition in Philadelphia provided education and support services to female inmates who were pregnant and/or mothers of young children. RWJF supported the program from 2006 through 2010.

Manavi, a New Brunswick, N.J.-based organization serving South Asian women who have suffered domestic violence, launched an economic empowerment program to help survivors move toward economic independence.

Beginning in 2002, the MTCT-Plus Initiative established family-based HIV care and treatment programs in sub-Saharan Africa and Thailand, linking HIV care and treatment of mothers to existing programs that prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV.